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Has this ever happened to you?

You're coding along, and you need to reference a module. You remember you called it 'calendar'. You know modules are references with URLs that begin with /content/, so you put in a link to /content/calendar/, and you test the link only to find it barf horribly.

Oh, that's right, you forgot to specify a default path in path_rewrites.conf.php...so mnemonically named, how could you forget!

Well, fret no more, dear developer. I too was annoyed by this and did something about it. Now you just need to have a new module attribute that you add when you're configuring the module in user.conf.php, where all the other module-related config stuff lives. Just add the line Modules::setAttribute('my_module_name', 'default_action', 'my_default_action'); and you're good to go.

But what if, in the heat of development, you forget? Well, since the code generators and example modules in Syntax CMS tend to assume that your default action is going to be called "list" anyway, it will try that. If that fails, you'll get the same old ugly screen you would have gotten otherwise.

The other good news is that there is now one less configuration file for you to worry about, as path_rewrites.conf.php is now history.

All this will be included in the 1.2.0 release, and is in CVS now.